Daily Wabash Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 19 July 1889 — Page 2

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The Republican state committee meets to-day at Indianapolis to elect new officers, all of the present members now holding federal positions. The committee as organized to day will stand until next spring when a new committee will be organized. 5

The Terre Haute oil field was made known twenty years ago. The Diall well, which still flows oil as but few wells have ever done, was and is a strong assurance that the field is one whose development will yet add great wealth to our community. The failure of any one, two, three or a half dozen of the other wells is not to be considered as more than a disappointment not a discouragement of further search. We are yet new and "green" in the business but we must learn as have the people in all the oil fields that what is oil for one is likely to be water for his nearest next door neighbor and vice versa.

WASTE AND EXTRAVAGANCE.

It Is extremely important to relieve to payers of some of their burdens. High taxes always drive away new Investors. What lb true of the city Is now conspicuously true of the county. The coin mlssloners have expended large sums of money lighting Jsut claims, In which, when brought to trial, they have been beaten at every point, and there now Is In many departments expenditures of money which could not otherwise than result In high tiixes, which the people, and especially the farmers of this section, are In poor condition to pay. Tills should be no party question. Let us hew to the line, allowing the chips to fall where they may. -I Gazette.

Our contemporary is both a partisan for revenue and a mugwump. It defends the sheriff's claim for services never rendered. For instance, he is supposed to have a bailiff attend the sessions of the county commissioners and he puts in a claim for this service for two years. He did not dare enter the claim for the first year before he went to the people for re-election. The Gazette defends him, one of its chief patrons, but criticises a Republican board of county commissioners. It has no word of criticism for the waste of county money in the circuit court caused by the dilatoriness of a Democratic judge who has inserted this advertisement in its columns:

The business of the present term not being all completed, and the term about to close, It Is ordered that this,court adjourn to meet on Friday, July 1'Jth. 1889, at 9 o'clock a. m., and that notice of the same be published In the Terre Haute Dally (Jazette on the 15th, Kith and 17th days of July, 188-J.

Between the lines this means that the court has been and is to be in almost continuous session, and that money has flown like water out of the county treasury to pay court costs when no court business was being transacted.

If our contemporary will do less prating about "party questions" and direct its criticisms toward all extravagance in the city and county government we will have more faith in its eleventh hour repentance. 0. O. I).

Of Course.

Mudge—I've seen some pretty hard times and hiid some hard falls In my day, but 1 generally managed to always light on my leet, you bet.

Wlckwlre—It is only natural that you should fall heavy end down.

Probably He Did.

Mrs. Jason—The paper says that Mrs, BUlup's boy Is dead. 1 wonder what he died of? You remember him, 1 guess. He was just out of his short pants this summer.

The night Start.

Yabsley—Well, Wlckwlre, I have given up my position. 1 have $1,()U) saved up, and I am going to study law and get Into politics.

Wlckwlre—You haven't got the sense of a last year's oyster. It you want to get Into politics, why don't you take that $1,00(1 and start a saloon?

A Dangerous Symptom,

Physician—So you are alrald your boy Is not likely to live long, Mr. Flgg? I see nothing In his apiearance to Justify such a belief.

Mr. Klgg-Oh, he looks all right, and his appetite is simply immense, but this morning I saw him untie a tin can from a dog's tall, and It alarmed me somewhat.

EXCHANGE ECHOES.

Cleveland Plain Dealer (Dem.): Friends of the saloons have begun a crusade sigalnst cigar stores, confectioneries, groceries, drug stores, etc.. In order to make the Sunday law oaious. Such tactics always react.

New York Mail and Express As prize-light preventatives the proclamations of the Southern governors cannot be said to have been overwhelmingly successful. It is a sage old adage that says "talk is cheap.'

Washington Press: The pulpit In various parts of the country persists In Its effort to down the Sunday newspapers. The thing can't be done, brethren. Better co-operate with the Sunday papers In all good works than try to Injure them.

New York Mall and Express: The law breakers, including the ratlroad managers who furnished transportation for the lighters and their following of "roughs," ought now to receive the attention of the legal authorities, not only of the states that suffered most from the nuisance, but of this state, whose laws were violated by Sullivan and his trainer, and of Maryland, whose laws were violated by Kllraln and his trainer.

Chicago Inter-Ocean: 1 Mttldoon wants to make amends for having taken part In a disgraceful mill, and rendered It possible by his skill as a trainer, let him open a sanitarium at Belfast, conlining nis attention to patients too far gone f»r drugs and ordinary dieting, yet not suffering from any specific malady, alcoholism alone excepted. He may enlarge his fortune and enroll his name among the benefactors of his race, making himself In more senses than one, We have long had water cures, and faith cures are numerous, with other hygienic institutes of lesser (fame, and now to the list should be added a Muldoon cure, eclectic sis to patients and rigidly restricted In mode of physical culture, reduced to a deep science and a high order by the exigencies and emulations of the prize ring.

THE SIN OF GAMBLING.

Convocation has condemned "betting and gambling/' but not without that "difference of opinion" which "aete in" even when clergymen define "sin" snd discuss morality, says the London Telegraph. After a resolution expressing alarm at the "prevalence and increase of betting and gambling in this country, Archdeacon Lane moved: "That this house recommends the following as practical means for checking or mitigating the evil: 'Remonstrance with individuals by parents, teachers, employes of labor, all persons in authority, as well as the clergy plain speaking from the pulpit, exposing the direct sin of these practices and their evil consequences, enforcing the duty of christian men and women to set their faces against them as strongly as against drunkenness and impurity, and exhorting the upper classes to set a wholesome example in these things. Some objected to this resolution as too sweeping, others because it did not go far enough. Archdeacon Farrar doubted whether gambling could be correctly called "direct sin there was only one passage in the bible referring to it the line in Isaiah: "Woe unto them who prepare a table for chance." It is clear, indeed, that this denunciation, literally restricted, would allow the stock exchange and the race course to escape scot free, and would condemn even penny whist around the domestic earth. Archdeacon Bathurst maintained the resolution as it stood, and believed that gambling was "direct sin." Canon Bright took the side of Archdeacon Farrar. He was not certain that gambling per se was sinful although of course it was so if carried to excess. "If they contended that whatever in the way of a commercial transaction was subject to chance was in the nature of gambling they would get into casuistical difficulties." The Rev. J. Jeffcock, agreeing with the resolution, would make it more sweeping, and would include in its censure all bazaars and fancy fairs which indulged in "lotteries." In Wolverhampton, where he lived, there were lotteries and raffles at all the church and charity bazaars, which were many. "He had even heard of a raffle for a -t'5-note." All these things were illegal, and one clergyman had been summoned and fined for breaking the law in this respect. He moved the addition of words discouraging "the employment of raffles and lotteries at fancy fairs and bazaars." The bishop of Chichester said such a "rider" would cover them with ridicule, as no one could say that raffles at bazaars led to evil consequences or encouraged a spirit of gambling, and several speakers opposed it because bazaars were found "a most useful means of raising money for church purposes." So the highest authorities were at variance, and when doctors of divinity differ who shall decide?

No doubt the evil, as we see it around us, is very grave, mainly because it has spread so enormously during recent years. There was a time when only a certain class of men having relations with stockbrokers indulged in speculation, and they started with a certain amount of capital, when they frequently lost and occasionally increased. Now, however, there are established in all parts of the city, and in some quarters of the West end, places where any young man with a few pounds in hiB pocket may open what is called a speculative account. In fact, he simply bets on the rise or fall in the day, in a week, or in a fortnight, of some particular foreign railway or other stock. A clerk at a hundred a year may thus take part in the gigantic gambling of the bourses of the world. He may know nothing of the influences behind the scenes, of the currents of politics, of the movements of silver or gold, of the thousand and one mysteries of trade that affect the money market he takes his chance, stakes his two or three pounds, and in a few hours loses or doubles it. In this way the stock exchange, in its gambling department, is brought down to the humblest capaoity and to the pettiest purse. Thus the question no longer concerns rash capitalists, but comes home to hosts of idle young gentlemen "betting on the tape," and to city clerks and shopmen impatient at the slow rise of their small salaries, and sometimes tempted by losses into embezzlement or larceny. In another direction gambling has spread downward to an amazing extent. Horse racing has developed to gigantic proportions for one meeting half a century ago there are now ten the stakes have increased, the rewards have trebled the interest has extended from the classes to the masses. Almost everybody bets on the issues of the contests, which recur so rapidly that it seems as if the year was one continued racing season, with a few lucid intervals. Betting on the speed of horses is, of course, an inevitable concomitant of the contests themselves but there was a time when it was kept within natural limits. Before railroads brought all England close together races were local as a rule, or at most confined to a county. Then men bet on the horse they had seen, and on the stable they knew, or relied upon the honesty and good faith of owners and jockeys who were their friends. They backed their own judgment, and lost or won accordingly. Now in every town and city of the United Kingdom bets are made by boys and men who never saw a horse race, and would not know a Jderby winner from a rank outsider by their own unaided observation. They stake their money on certain names they take "tips" from sundry prophets they hear of a hint or a suggestion from some frequenter of a billiard-room or a bar they acquire by losing pounds a lip-knowledge of stable slang, and not until they have lost their cash, their situations and their characters do they realize what greenhorns they have been, swindled right and left by dishonest owners, cheating jockeys and ignorant tipsters. Big bookmakers make many thousands a year, each living in luxury by practice of a craft that requires no education and no accomplishments beyond a strident voice and they are supported in style by thousands, and tenB of thousands, of silly men and boys, each believing that he, and he alone, can win by detecting and circumventing the frauds of the turf. In the last century gambling was the madness of a few. Today it ie the diffused folly of millions. Each of them has but little to lose, but to him that little often means all. It was certainly high time for the church to interpoee its authority and to issue its remonstrances, but we fear that the voice of the clergy will not have any great effect. A prophet of the old type, living in poverty and burning with holy zeal, might do something. But there are clergymen themselves who bet, and others who directly patronize the lotteries and raffles that bring cash into their coffers. We doubt, therefore, the influence of the new anathema.

The main difficulty iB that, though wide spread gambling is a serious social evil, there are some

formB

of it which is

exceedingly difficult for the strictest

moralist to call sin. A oountrjj gentleman, who, with his wife and two frienda,

Eardly

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penny whist onoe a week, would be considered a great offender, and yet in the strict sense of the word he is a gambler. It may be said that the pence he loses or wins are of no importance to him, and therefore, he commits no offense but according to that principle a millionaire may win or lose £10,000 on the derby. Common

Bense

seems to in­

dicate that the sin of gambling is a question of proportion and of degree, not of risk or chance. For it would be impossible to carry on any form of extended enterprise without running risks ana incurring the chance of loss, and to run a risk and allow the play of chance is to gamble. Take a common case in commerce. A Quaker, a scrupulous, conscientious man, hears of an opening at a particular port for the sale at high profit of a cargo of corn. He suggests to his partner that they dispatch the grain at once. "But," his friend says "before it reaches the place the price may have fallen or may be forestalled by other merchants." "We must chance that," is the rejoinder, and the corn is staked on that big gambling table called the business world as distinctly as if it were a napoleon flung down on the red at Monte Carlo. Now, are these Quakers gamblera and sinners, or are they] British merchants facing the inevitable perils of trade? No doubt there is a distinction between the natural uncertainties of human events and the manufactured uncertainties of dice, cards orroulette that must be granted. Still, the line between commercial enterprise and speculation is difficult to draw, and speculation passes into gambling by imperceptible degrees. We have to face another hard fact. Gambling is not a vice of modern life or of advanced civilization. The most ancient people practiced it primitive savages have rudimentary games. Orientals who do not play cards or bet at horse raoes will wager hige on the volume or force of an impending shower filling a rain-spout. Italian boys will gamble with no implements beyond their ten fingers. Other vices are national, or belong to a few races for instance, there are people always sober, and souio who are invariably chaste. Qambling, however, in one form or another, and to a greater or lesser extent, seems to be as widespread as the human race—not further, as there are no signs that monkeys play poker or that birds draw lots for the highest branches. It must ever be difficult to restrict a passion so old,

BO

universal and so per­

sistent, or to define where it is essentially harmless, and where it amounts to sin.

HARRISON WILL PROBABLY COME.

The Monument Corner Stone Laying to be Made a National Affair.

W. B. Roberts, the governor's private secretary, returned to Indianapolis from Chicago yesterday morning, where he went to see what could be done toward obtaining a one-cent-per-mile rate from the railroads on the occasion of the soldiers' monument corner-stone laying. His conference with the officers of Indiana roads in that city was entirely satisfactory, and he thinks the rate can be secured without much difficulty.

The committee having in charge the arrangements for the corner-stone laying propose to exert every effort to make the event a notable one. It has been decided to invite President Harrison and the members of his cabinet to be present, and it is believed the invitation will be accepted. "The event ought to bring 100,000 strangers to the city," said a member of the committee this morning, "and we propose to leave nothing undone that will bring that number."

James R. Ross, of the uniform rank, K. of P., has accepted an invitation on behalf of the Indiana brigade, to take part in the ceremonies, and all the uniform ranks, K. of P. in the Btate will be ordered to report here on the 22d.

-vVISITORS TO BK WELCOMED.

Invitation to Witness the Maneuvers of the State Troops in Camp.

Adjutant General Ruckle this morning, sayB the Newe, completed the daily programme'for the encampment, which will be printed on slips of paper and handed to the soldier boys as they arrive Monday morning. The adjutant general says the programme will be observed with true military precision. It is as follows: 6 a. m., reveille 6:10, police call 6:30, breakfast 7:15,sick call 7:30, squad drill 8, guard mounting 9, battalion and company drill 12, noon, dinner call 1:30 p. m., school call 2:30, battalion drill 5:30, dress parade 6, supper 7:30, school 9:30, tattoo 10:30, tape.

Ity is possible Mr. Ruckle says, that changes may be made in the programme for drills. One day during the week Governor Hovey will review the "troops," aed on that day the company and batallion drills will likely be dispensed with.

Adjutant General Ruckle wants it understood that visitors will be welcome to the encampment grounds, and he expresses the hope that the citizens in large numbers will witness the drills every day. However, no visitors will be permitted in camp until 9 o'clock in the morning, and all will be excluded after tattoo roll call in the evening.

The Manitoba Wheat Crop a Failure. CnicAtio,

July 18.—A special dispatch

from Toronto, Ont., says: The Manitoba and Canadian Northwest says the crop is a failure beyond a doubt. Lately Bome encouraging dispatches were received, but later authentic reports confirm the statement made.a few days ago of the crop being a failure. Prominent members of the Toledo board of trade have received information that the total yield will be less than half of last year's crop, and disaster is so widespread and serious that there are thousands of acres that will not be out at all. Beyond all reasonable doubt the damage is the direct result of drought.

Indiana Mine Strike.

If both should be right, and their firmness

Bhows

that they have reason to

think they are, then the best thing they can do

is

to abandon the busines and

seek new and more remunerative employment for their capital and labor. It is absurd for them to remain idle, trying to force each other to do impossible things. The one value of an arbitration board in Buch a case would be that it might establish the fact that the business ought to be abandoned. That makes hard lines for both operators and laborers, but they might as well be accepted at onoe if they cannot be avoided. —[Philadelphia Ledger.

At the Club.

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Old Muggins (who has married a young beauty, and has not yet tired of boating about it)—Did you ever see my v%fe, Buggins?

Young Buggins—Lord, yes! I'm gaged to her—when you die.—[To-D

LKARM THE ART OF UAVIN6.

Vlsltm wio Caaaot IMOM That They Am

Maklag Bona of TbemaelvM.

When Mine, de Stael visited Weimar with the avowed intention of intellectually capturing the literary lions of the dur—Goethe, and Schiller—she maria one fatal mistake: Bhe stayed too long. Goethe wrote to Schiller: "Mme. de Stael is a bright, entertaining person, but she ought to know when it is time to go." Besides not knowing when to go, it is evident from incidents recorded of her journey that she did not know how to go. She lingered after she had started. It is related of her that at one place after she had ordered her carriage and announced her intention of departing in the morning she started a conversation which she vigorously kept up until it was so near noon that her host and hostess could but press her to stay for luncheon. This over, the conversation was again resumed, nor allowed to flag until it was so near evening that the strained courtesy of her entertainers could but Buggeet that the horses be taken from the carriage, which had waited at the gate all day, and that she stay another night, which she did.

It is Disraeli who, in "Lothair," puts in the mouth of Theodora the sentiment that no one should ever say good by, but in departing should fade away like a summer cloud. It is probable that the great statesman and novelist wrote this after a parting interview with somes one who had bored him with tedious farewells—who understood not the art of leaving. For in the narrowest and choicest circle -of friends and acquaintances there are usually some persons the pleasure of whose visits or calls, whether of business or of pleasure, is marred by the fact that they do not seem to know how to go. For when a friend or caller departs we are either glad, sorry or indifferent. If we are glad we desire to be brief if we are sorry the quioker the painful scene is ended the better if we are indifferent we grudge the draft on our time, if we are busy, as the moet of us are, with the pressing affairs of life.

The art of leaving is less understood by women than by men. The habits of business, the recognized fact that to a business-man time is money, the throng and press and exactingnees of business life all tend to make, men who live in cities the best possible exemplers of the fine art of leaving quickly and neatly. A business-man's Bocial call is usually a model of good manners in this respect. When he hes said what he has to say and listened to what there is to hear he takes his hat, says "Good-evening," and is out of your presence without giving any time or chance for the too often tedious and embarrassing commonplaces of mutual invitations and promisee to call again, which seem to be a kind of social formula with women. In striking contrast with this neat and skillful method of cutting short the parting words of an interview or call is the too common social practice of visitors who, commencing to leave, seem temporarily to abandon their purpose and then linger as though it were a kind of compliment to the visited party to appear loath to part company. Who does not dread the visitor who starts, then thinks of something elBe to say rises, and then thinks of another subject of conversation nearly reaches the door and then has another revelation reaches the door, and, most probably holding it open, is aroused to a degree of mental brilliancy and threatens his health and that of his host or hostess by long detaining of both in a cold draft while he discourses? What a tax on the patience and politeness of the listener, who vainly strives by assenting inBtantly to every proposition to end the interview and break the restraining bond of polite attention.

The equally annoying counterpart of the tedious caller who does not understand the art of leaving, is found in the person who seems anxious to detain the caller attempting to leave, and who makes protests or introduces new subjects of conversation at the critical moment. The art of leaving on the part of the visitor needs to be supplemented by the art of letting go on the part of the hoet. "Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest" is a classic maxim of good society. July and August days are suggestive of the propriety of observing and practicing both of these arts, but especially the fine art of leaving.

HIS SECRET DIED WITH HIM.

The American Aluminum Company Can No Longer Make Metal of Clay*

Fred J. Seymour, manager of the American aluminum works of Findlay, Ohio, died last week, and it is now discovered that the secret of the Seymour process of making aluminum from clay died with Mr. Seymour. At the factory of the company, where for the last two years aluminum has been successfully produced, the information is given out that the patents on the process embraced every detail except the actual conversion of the material used into the finished metal. It was the custom of Mr. Seymour to admit no one in the room where he worked at the critical moment when the molten mass was to be divided into its constituent parts. He is supposed to have treated the liquid matter with some chemical which separated the precious aluminum from the dross, and it is this part of the process he carried with him to the grave. The company, by reason of this fact, has not, as yet, determined whether to abandon the workB or continue under some new process.

An Infallible Indicator.

You can tell pretty well how a girl feels toward you by the way she takes your arm. If she 'doesn't care a cent you know it by tho indifference of her muscles. If she has a great confidence in you the pressure tells it and friendship is just as distinct from love in that mode of expression as in words or looks. A woman can take the arm of a fellow she likes much with perfect comfort, even if she is Bix feet high and he is four. But even if the two are just matched she can make him feel disdain, contempt, discomfort, dislike, anything she likes by the way she does not hold on to him. I am told there is a great deal of difference, too, between the way a girl fits her waist to one man's arm as oompared with another but I hardly believe it.—[San Francisco Chronicle.

How He Got lUd of Them.

Reporter (seeking professional wisdom) —Doctor, I suppose you have seen the statement that Sullivan lost over six pounds in the comparatively short period of the fight with Kilrain. How could he lose that much weight. By perspiration?

Doctor—Yes, perspiration would account for part of it, but certainly not for all that he is said to have lost. I think the other pounds were thoee he gave Kilrain.—[Columbus Despatch.

Civilities Iktwecn Dear Friend*.

Miss Garlinghouse, dining with her friend (sweetly)—What perfeotly lovely

ooffs* you make, Laura! I don't think I evsr tasted any that was just— just exactly like it, you know.

Miss Kajonss (still more sweetly)—I always use genuine ooffee. So glad you like it, Irene, dear 1—[Chicago Tribune.

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THE CONSUMPTION OF LIQUOR.

The ProdneUoa and Coasnmpttoa of Spirit* In This and Other Countries.

The national bureau of statistics has just completed an elaborate repo^ on the production and consumption of spirits and malt liquors in the United States. In some respects the conclusions are startling. In the fiscal year 1888 no less than 75,845,352 gallons of distilled spirits, 36,335,068 gallons of wines and 767,587,056 gallons of malt liquors wereoonsumed in this country, a total of 879,767,476 gallons, or 14.30 gallons for every man, woman and child.

To show the increase in the consumption of the various kinds of liquors we give the following figures, representing gallons:

Years. Spirits. Wines. Malt 1840 43.060,884 4.813.096 23,810,848 I860 51,833,473 8.316.871 36,563,009 1860 89,968,661 11,069,141 101,346,699 1870. 79,896,708 12.2X.067 2U4.766.166 1880 63,626,694 28.329,641 2H220.166 1884 81,128,681 20,608,346 690,016.617 1888 66,846,362 36,335,068 767,687,069

For the same years we give the statistics of the per capita consumption in gallons:

Years. Spirits. Wines. Malt. 1840 2.52 0.29 1.36 1860 2.23 1.27 1.58 I860 2.86 0.35 3.22 1870 2.07 0.32 630 1880 126 0.66 8,26 1884 1.46 0.37 10.22 1888 1.23 ®.59 12.4#

There has been a decrease of the per capita consumption of spirits and but little increase in the consumption of wine, the great increase being in the use of ale and beer. This, indeed, has been something enormous.

Possibly there are countries in the world where a greater quantity of intoxicating beverages is consumed than here. It is certain that there are several where the per capita consumption of one kind of liquor or another is greater than in the United States. The latest statistics of per capita consumption are embodied in the following table, the figures denoting gallons:

Countries. Spirits. Wines. Malt. United States 1.23 0.59 12.48 United Kingdom OiW 0.38 32.88 Germany 1.09 —24 99 France 1.24 26 74 Denmark .. 4.23 Sweden 2.47 Canada 84 0.10 3.50

It will thus be seen that three countriee exceed us in the per capita consumption of spirits, one in wine and two in ale and beer.

Of the spirits consumed here in 1888, amounting in the aggregate to 75,845,352 gallons, only 1,643,966 gallons were imported of the 36,335,068 gallons of wine, only 4,654,545 gallons came from other countries, and of 767,587,056 gallons of ale and beer, only 2,500,267 gallons crossed the ocean.

Of late years there has been a constant increase in the production of native wine and a decrease in the importation of the foreign product. In 1870, of the twelve million gallons of wine consumed here, one-quarter was domestic and three-quarters was foreign but in 1888 thirty-one million gallons of the thirtysix million gallons consumed were native.

The Chaplain Gave Himself Away.

General Hardee, of the Confederate army, was a fine tactician and strict disciplinarian. He detested straggling and severely repressed all tendency to breaking ranks. One day he was riding along the rear of the column, when he spied a lank, uncouth Johnny, clad in butternut and perched disconsolately on the rider of a six-rail worm fence. Biding up, General Hardee broke out with a string of oaths. "You infernal straggler, what are you doing here?" "I'm a-restin'," was the sullen response. "Well, who in the devil are you? What is your regiment?" "I'm chaplain in the Eleventh Arkansaw volunteers.' Who in h—1 are you?" —[Washington Post.

A Great Graft.

Not less than fifteen million dollars is paid out in New York city, on an average, every year in fees, an aggregate which it is difficult to arrive at save by broad generalization, and which may oftener run up to $25,000,000 than fall to 110,000,000. If at a glance there are 5,000 lawyers in New York, it is easy to reach the conclusion that 500 of them do the legal business of the metropolis. The professional incomes of some of these 500 run up to $100,000 a year, and the incomes of the firms with which they are allied to $250,000 a year.

How the Yonng Idea is Crammed.

The following extract is from a pupil's composition on "The Blacksmith:" "Man in his state of incarnation has various ways of making money to supply himself with nutriment so that the body may be able to exhilarate its immortal tenant, 'the soul.' The one about which I shall speak is the smith. This trade is of momentous importance. It is quite amusing to hear him when he is mending apiece of malleable work he has a way of striking the iron that makes it sound harmonious to the ear, and children very often stop to hear him." —[American Missionary.

Libel Suits In Tennessee.

The Nashville American's humorist has been writing paragraphs about Mr. W. T. Ownby, and that gentleman declines to take a pleusant view of the jokelets, and has retaliated with a $25,000 libel suit.

At Gallatin, Tenn., H. S. Dunn has sued the Western Union telegraph company for $20,000 damages, for having transmitted newspaper dispatches stating that he was a bigamist.

,* Two Ways.

He (sentimentally)—How shall I ever leave thee, love? She (practically)—Well, if you go now you may get out of the door. But I hear father coming, and if you don't go now you may go out at the window.—[Lawrence American.

Remarkable Birds,

Recently a Russian nobleman paid $600 for a pair of nightingalee that are said to render the national melodies in a delightful manner. A bird that can sing in the Russian language must indeed be valuable.

The Rnyal Miser.

Queen Victoria's personal wealth is estimated at $20,000,000, yet she would have the public give her grandchild a marriage lot.

The Washington Monument Record.

Since the opening of the Washington monument 121,871 people have ascended it.

BXPNW .PACKAGES.

Faith, Hope sad Charity.». FAITH. With eager appetite I llx my eye Upon the piece or huckleberry pie.

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How similar the berry and tbe tij! And yet, mayhap, It la a berry pie.

CBARITT.

into its depths I peer, and pass tbe (ie Unto my hongry neighbor sitting by. —[Washington Post. It is asserted that Pans shopkeepers have raised prices fully 50 per cent., but only to strangers.

The man who was to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel has concluded simply to go over to Canada without his barrel to escape his creditors.

Henry Wiles, of Charleston, W. Va, turned over his pillow the other morning on arising and found a rattlesnake coiled up under it and quietly sleeping.

A Maryland man salted a ledge of rock on his farm with silver and caught a sucker,. who paid him $3,000 for $15 worth of land. More than that, he has gone to Paris to enjoy himself and uphold the honor of America.

The Italian laborers are largely given to the quaffing of sarsaparilla and other light non-intoxicating beverages at this season of the year. Comparatively few of them indulge in beer or other alcoholic liquors while at work.

A citizen of Keeney ville, Pa., who was startled by a cannon cracker which an urchin exploded behind him, went across the street and knocked down a young man for laughing at the episode, and then paid him $10 to compromise the case.

A citizen of North East, Pa., made actual measurement, last week, and found that his corn grew between four and five inches in twenty-four hours. He drove stakes in the ground, stretched up the longest leaf, and marked the stake. The next morning showed the growth stated.

John D. Nutting, while prospecting for garnets in the mountains near the county house in Warren county, N. Y., has discovered ore which he believes to be rich in qilver. He also states that there are traces of gold and copper in the ore. There is considerable excitement over the discovery.

Miss Gertrude Patton, of Cochranton, Pa., has been elected a teacher in the government Bchool at Sitka, Alaska, and starts for that place about September 1. A sister of Miss Patton, Miss Lizzie, taught at Sitka until her marriage to a business man of that place, and another sister, Miss Cassia, is now teaching there.

In a Congregational church near Altoona Sunday evening,

juBt

as the choir

had finished the first verse of a hymn, a sudden gust blew in at the open window, extinguishing every light. The lamps were relighted, and the dominie turned purple with a suppressed smile as he gave out the second verse: "Come, light serene! and still our utmost bosoms fill."

A Greenland expedition has been planned for next summer. Seven men, under the command of an officer of the Danish royal navy, will leave Copenhagen in the spring, taking with them provisions sufficient for two and a half years. Their destination will be the east coast of Greenland, and they will explore it between the degrees of 66 and 73 north latitude.

One of the most curious inventions is a method for producing food for fishes, which is the joint production of two men from Switzerland. It provides two ponds and passes the fish from the first pond to the second, allowing the excrement to remain and develop animacuhc, and returning the fish to the first pond to feed upon the animalcule while it is developing in the second pond.

About a week ago Charles Perris, a farmer of Sherborne, England, was out in the mowing field when he was called by his daughter to hive a swarm of bees which had settled in the garden. While so engaged he was severely stung. He went into his house and died in a few minutes. When a doctor was called it was found that a bee had got into the man's throat and stung it, and, a rapid swelling ensuing, n? died of suffocation.

A Steubenville young man was calling on a young lady a couple of nights since, when she proposed making ice cream, a favorite dish of his. Everything being ready, he began to revolve the freezer, and kept it up, with breathing Bpells, till 1 o'clock, but no cream resulted. Investigation followed, when the inexperienced miss discovered that she had put buttermilk in the freezer.

H. F. Haman, of Meadville, thus tells of

a

battle in Kebort run between a monster blacksnake and a yellow sucker a foot long: "The

Bnake

had the fish by

the head, and the fish fairly foamed the water in its struggle to get off. I got

a

pitchfork, and after several jabs I succeeded in getting one of the tines through the serpent's body, when he loosened his grip and the fish swam slowly away. I killed the snake, which measured fully four feet."

Miss Nina Gilchrist, of Wilkesbarre, saw what she supposed was a large green leaf lying on her bed-room carpet. On approaching the object it straightened out and developed into along glitteringeyed snake. The young lady called the family. The snake disappeared, however, and although it has been seen several times around the houBe, it has got away. It is supposed there is a nest of them in a Virginia creeper that adorns the side of the house.

An English paper says: Another case has occurred of a premiere danseuse'B dress catching tire. Happily, the lady is said to have been only "slightly burnt," but even if that be

BO,

the fright occa­

sioned must have been serious. When will our ballerine make up their minds to abandon the dangerous stiff skirts which have disfigured them so long? With the clinging skirts of the more modern danseuBe there is much less likelihood of accident.

The huge organ for the town hall, Sydney, has been completed in London. Its most remarkable feature is a 64foot stop. The lowest note of the stop, expressed in organ builders' language as "CCCCC," is two octaves below the lowest on the pianoforte, and, as it gives only eight vibrations in a second, it cannot be perceived as a note at all. Its effect lies wholly in the extraordinary richness and power of its upper harmonies, by which it re-enforces notes given by the higher pipes.

Sergeant Haag must be looked upon as the Samson of the Jersey City police force, if the following story but does him justice: "A few days ago a pony had a kantankerous fit in front of the Fifth precinct police station, and managed to kick so hard and high that he straddled the shaft. Sergeant Haag stepped out and lifted the unruly beast bodily and dropped him gently between the shafts. The surprised animal was instantly cured of his balkiness, and has since been as docile as a lamb."

Prepared by a combination, proportion and process peculiar to itself, Hood's Sarsaparilla accomplishes cures hitherto unknown.

POWDER

Absolutely Pure.

hit pewder never vanes, A marvel of potto ourtn and wbolesomeness. More eoonomlca ordinary kinds, and cannot be sold IB than the srdlnaiy kinds, ana cannot, ue soia 10 competition with the multitude of low test, short weight alum or phosphate powders. Sold only in sans, BOIAX, Bixore Pownn Co., 100 Wall at., N.T.

We are going to mark it—market— market it—by making a specinl display and price for it

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1

Special tables, second floor. A few styles of Muslin Skirls, for ladies, at a very low price, to close out.

Al6o— Five styles of Muslin Gowns at 69 cents each, which is just about half price.

First come first served.

S. MS CO.,

INDIANAPOLIS, IND.

N. B.—We are the exclusive selling agents for those very fine plain black and figured Dress Sateens. We guarantee that neither sun, water, perspiration nor acids will change the color.

Agents for Butterick's patterns.

TIME TABLE.

Trains marked thus (P) denote Parlor Car attached. Trains marked thus (S) denote Sleeping Oars attached dally. Trains marked thus (B) denote Bullet Cars attached. Trains marked thus run dally. All other trains ran dally Sundays excepted.

VANPAUA LINE.

T. H. 4 I. DIVISION. LBAVB JOH THB WW.

No. 9 Western Express (84V) 1.42 a. m. No. 6 Mall Train 1JU8 a. m. No. 1 Fast Line (P4V) A16 p. m. No. 7 Vast Mall tt.04 p. m.

LBATB FOB TUB BAST.

No. 12 Cincinnati Express (S) 1.80 a. m. No. 6 New York Express (S4V) 1.61 a. m. No. 4 Mall and Accommodation 7.15 a. m. No. 'JU Atlantic Express (P4V) 12.« p. m. No. 8 Fast Line*. 100 p.

ARRIVJC FROM THB BAST.

No. Western Express (S4V) 1.30 a. m. No. 6 Mall Train 10-12 a. m. No. 1 Fast Line (P4V) 2.00 p. m. No. 3 Mall and Accommodation «... 6.4S p. No. 7 Fast Mall 9.00 p.m.

ARRIVK FROM THB WKST.

No. 12 Cincinnati Express (S) 1.20 a. m. No. 6 New Y«rk Express (S&V) 1.42 a. r». No. 20 Atlantic Express (P4V) 12.37 p. m. No. 8 Fast Line* 1.40 p.m.

T. H. 4 L. DIVISION.

LKAVK FOB THB HORTH.

No. 62 South Bend Mall 6.00 a. m. No. 54 Sonth Bend Express 4.00 p. m. ARRIVK FROM THB NORTH No. 61 Terre Haute Express 12.00 noon No. 63 South Bend Mall 7.30 p. m.

PROFESSIONAL CARDS.

DR. E, A. GILLETTE,

DENTIST.

Filling of Teeth a Specialty.

OSce—McKeen's new olock, cor. 7th and Main sts

w.

R. HAIL. L, H. BABTHGLOMBW.

DRS. MAIL & BARTHOLOMEW

Derjtists,

(Successors to Bartholomew 4 HaiL 629K Ohio St. Terre Haute, Ind.

I. I^OYSB,

NO. 617 OHIO STREET.

DR. C. O. LINCOLN,

DKJJTI8T.

All work warranted as represented. Ofllce anc residence 310 North Thirteenth street. Terr* Haute, Ind.

fornn inpurnblocnwofCsUrrli in the llrail by tin- proprietors of

DR. SAfiE'S CATARRH REMEDY.

Symptoms of Catarrh. Ilcaduche. obstruction of now, discharges falling- into ttaroat. sometimes profuse, watery, and acrid, at others, thick, tenacious, mucous, purulent, bloody and putrid eyes weak, rinjrintf in ears, deafness, difficulty of clearing throat, expectoration of offensive matter breath offensive: smell and taste impaired, and ifeneral debility. Only a few of these symptoms likely to In- present at once. Thousands of cases result in consumption. and end in the (fnxve.

By its mild, soothing and healing properties. Dr. Sage's Itcmcdy cures the worst east's. 60c.

The Original

IVQTCO 9 tirriB

LIVER PILLS.

Purtly VegttaIlarmtea.

Unequaled as a E.ivci^l II. Smallest,cheapest, easiest to take. One Pellet Cure Slek Headache, Hilloun Headache, IMuineM, Coiwtlpallou, liidtgeatlon* Bilious Attack*, and all derangements of the stomach and bowels. S3 eta. by druwiata.